Global Commodity Manager, Thermal

1 Month ago • 4 Years + • Logistics

Job Summary

Job Description

The Global Commodity Manager, Thermal, at Google Cloud in Taipei, Taiwan, is responsible for strategically managing supplier relationships and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality thermal materials for server and storage infrastructure at optimal cost. This role involves collaborating with engineering teams, negotiating agreements with suppliers, conducting market research, managing supplier performance, and driving supply chain improvements. The candidate will work on next-generation cooling technologies and solutions, requiring strong technical expertise and cross-functional collaboration. This position requires a deep understanding of thermal management across various levels, from infrastructure to chip-level components. The successful candidate will lead cross-functional teams, implement cost reductions, and engage with suppliers on material escalations. They will also provide input into commodity strategies and execute on them, working closely with executive leadership.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in technical field or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years procurement & supply chain experience
  • Global thermal supply base experience
  • Experience with next-generation cooling technologies
  • Cross-functional collaboration & leadership skills
Good to have:
  • MBA or Master's in Mechanical Engineering
  • Experience in thermal management from infrastructure to chip
  • Proven ability to negotiate and secure agreements
  • Strong analytical & problem-solving skills

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience in procurement and supply chain management.

Preferred qualifications:

  • MBA or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, or in a related field.
  • Experience with global thermal supply base and technologies for server and storage infrastructure.
  • Experience in thermal management from infrastructure to chip including next generation cooling technologies, materials, components and solutions.
  • Ability to travel, and drive change with a long term perspective across multiple functions and transform the business.
  • Ability to work in ambiguous situations, and resolve conflicts while working cross-functionally with internal/external partners.
  • Excellent leadership, management, with outstanding business acumen, decision-making, and investigative skills.

About the job

Commodity Managers work with Engineering teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from our Engineering teams. As a Commodity Manager, you use your wide industry knowledge and strategic supplier relationships to optimize our total cost of ownership for our global -- and growing -- infrastructure. The scale at which Google operates means that savings on just one piece of hardware can have a huge impact on Google's bottom line.

As a Thermal Commodity Manager in the Cloud Supply Chain and Operations (CSCO), you will play a critical role in strategically managing supplier relationships and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality materials at the best possible cost. You will partner with Executive Thermal Global Commodity Managements (GCM). You will provide inputs to the commodity strategy and execute on them. You will help build, scale, and standardize first-tier and sub-tiers components that supply ecosystems with a high degree of effectiveness and efficiency with guidance from executive team members. You will lead cross-functional supplier selection, performance management through metrics and supplier reviews and drive exceptional supply chain improvements. You will engage with engineers on next generation technology initiatives by fostering vendor development of solutions and road maps. You will maintain a high sensitivity for industry/technology intelligence and market supply/demand conditions.Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

  • Provide input to commodity strategies and execute on them. Co-Lead cross-functional teams through robust supplier selection for new platforms.
  • Partner with executive colleagues to conduct high-level negotiations and secure comprehensive agreements with supplier executives.
  • Maintain high level of industry expertise and supplier/market conditions through research and convey market research for all Data Center thermal solutions.
  • Manage supplier performance in cost, quality, delivery and technology alignment through weekly meetings and scorecard reviews. 
  • Implement supply chain improvements, quarter quoting, and cost reductions. Work with suppliers on material escalations.

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